If you really want to know how spiritually awake you are, spend time around other people. For each of our relationships - from the brief interaction with the barista to our bonds with lifelong partners or family members - reflect back to us our predominant state of consciousness. On Enlightened Relationships, Eckhart Tolle offers an insightful two-session program for bringing the transformational power of presence into this often challenging yet deeply rewarding area of our lives.

Transmuting Suffering into Peace

The purpose of this Intensive is to help you to be present. It’s only when you are present that you can see the conditioned patterns in your own life. Freeing yourself from these conditioned patterns is the fulfillment of your life’s purpose – living from your authentic self.

Resist Nothing: Guided Meditations to Heal the Pain-Body

Why do our negative experiences seem to stay with us so persistently? It is because they are the fuel for what Eckhart Tolle calls the pain-body, an energetic field that actually feeds on toxic thoughts and emotions. Liberation from the pain-body is not about repressing or denying our thoughts. Instead, as Eckhart's teaching partner Kim Eng reveals, we must develop a complete receptiveness to all experience-rejecting nothing, judging nothing, and resisting nothing.

Transcending the Ego: Finding Our Roots in Being

Awakening from this dream, explains Eckhart Tolle, starts by coming into a new relationship to the present moment—and discovering who we are beneath the noisy surface of our lives. Recorded at Riverside Church in New York City, Transcending the Ego offers Eckhart's helpful pointers for realizing what he calls our "being nature"—our deeper identity beyond the personal sense of self.

Through the Open Door: To the Vastness of Your True Being

Once you've experienced the power of the present moment, what's next? Eckhart Tolle, who ignited a spiritual awakening in the West with his best-selling The Power of Now, invites you to join him on a path that takes us even further into the profound experience of pure presence.

Sustaining Presence in the Face of Catastrophe: Teachings on Awakening to Our Essential Nature

Sustaining Presence in the Face of Catastrophe shares Eckhart Tolle's compassionate perspective for anyone dealing with intense suffering or loss. Recorded within a week of 9/11 at Omega Institute in upstate New York, these moving sessions bring listeners Eckhart Tolle's guidance in responding in the face of tragedy, staying rooted in presence when the unexpected happens, and realizing that which is eternal within all of us.

Freedom from the World

This series represents an opportunity to participate in a one week retreat with Eckhart and so to go deeper into stillness – becoming one with who you are in the depth of your Being. A certain degree of spiritual maturity, however, is required of anyone wishing to participate fully in this retreat series. What is spiritual maturity? You know the meaning of presence, not as a concept, but as a living reality.

The Secret of Self-Realization

When you realize that it’s unnecessary to think all the time, something miraculous happens: who you are beyond the self-image in your head begins to emerge. Join Eckhart Tolle in The Secret of Self-Realization for an intensive two-session program pointing us toward the firsthand experience of our essential nature beyond the mind. After years of anxiety and depression, how was it that Eckhart came to suddenly realize a vastness of peace and inner freedom? Through the cessation of the thinking that was creating all of the drama in the first place, Eckhart discovered a sense of identity beyond “the little me.” The Secret of Self-Realization invites you to transcend the frustration and dissatisfaction of a thought-based life to experience the liberation that unfolds when the dimension of “being” takes precedence.

At the Source of Being: Teachings on the Arising of the Awakened State

If you go about your day trapped in the realm of thinking, it's difficult, if not impossible, to free yourself from stress and anxiety - and the interpersonal suffering that goes along with it. But if you're rooted in the now, explains Eckhart Tolle, you're already standing in a place of deep fulfillment. At the Source of Being brings you a five-part intensive retreat with Eckhart Tolle, presenting more than seven hours of in-depth guidance in the central aspects of his simple yet life-changing teaching.

Touching the Eternal: A Retreat on the Heart of Spiritual Surrender

Through the centuries, countless people from around the world have been coming to India, thirsty in their search for truth. Considered to be the birthplace of spirituality, India has produced more great mystics and spiritual teachers than any other country. What more fitting place for Eckhart to speak of the eternal Now? During this seven-day retreat, Eckhart speaks with humble authenticity, wisdom and humor on a wide range of subjects.

Eckhart Tolle's Findhorn Retreat

Best-selling author and spiritual guide Eckhart Tolle led a remarkable two-day retreat at Findhorn, Scotland, a community on the leading edge of personal and global transformation. His weekend talks, captured on audio, create a deeply moving experience for listeners. Speaking on the subject of stillness, which he describes as a doorway into the Now and to true personal enlightenment, Tolle shows listeners how to find stillness in the present moment and enter a deeper dimension of peace and fulfillment.

Living a Life of Inner Peace

Living a Life of Inner Peace is a recording of one of Eckhart's most moving, transformative talks. The talk is relaxed and funny, and he conveys his message through stories and insightful observation. Eckhart makes us laugh at ourselves, while helping us break through habitual thinking to discover the eternal presence of the Now.

The Art of Presence

In The Art of Presence, Eckhart guides you through seven hours of transformational insights that allow "presence to naturally arise" in you. With his one-of-a-kind instruction, you will learn how to ground yourself in the vibrancy of your "inner body" while simultaneously breaking free from the illusion of separation from the outside world.

The Joy of Being: Awakening to One's True Identity

When challenges arise in your life, what happens inside of you? For many of us, the larger the problem, the more we resist, contract, and react unconsciously. On the other hand, explains Eckhart Tolle, in any given moment we have the chance to remain open to life, align with what is, and experience the natural sense of peace and aliveness that he calls "the joy of being".

The Illusion of Time: Breaking Free from the Pull of Past and Future

What is time? We give it so much importance, but as Eckhart Tolle teaches, we can only ever experience the timeless present. The Illusion of Time explores this paradox, pointing the way out of a dysfunctional relationship to time—and into the fullness of life in the here and now.

In this empowering two-session program, Eckhart exposes the roots of our obsession with time to help us free ourselves from the ongoing stream of thoughts about the past and future—and reconnect with the depths of who we are beyond the mind.

The Flowering of Human Consciousness: Everyone's Life Purpose

In The Flowering of Human Consciousness, you will come face-to-face with Eckhart Tolle for a transformational meeting with this respected teacher and influential author. In clear language, Eckhart explains the process of entering the "miraculous" state of presence that is always available to us. We are lost, he says, in the maze of our own compulsive thoughts. Only by ceasing this "mental noise" can we dissolve our egos, and enable the "flowering of a new consciousness" to proceed.

The Journey Into Yourself

The theme of this four-day retreat: "It's Always Now" The Now is inseparable from who you are at the deepest level. It is the prerequisite of Being. As you listen to the words on this tape, you participate in the retreat. To "retreat" means to step back - not only from the outer world, but also from the world in your head, the thinking mind. Allow the sound of the words to take you beyond words and beyond sound to the stillness within.

Publisher's Summary

Somewhere between the past and the future lies a dimension that is free of problems, free of suffering, free of conflict. This is the essence of all the world's spiritual teachings. And it is available to you now, in the moment you read this.

In Living the Liberated Life and Dealing with the Pain-Body, best selling author Eckhart Tolle points a way out of the conditioned mind that keeps us trapped, helpless, and unhappy. In simple language, he describes a deeper level of consciousness beyond the limited thinking mind, and the way to make it available to you. He teaches that only by fully accepting this moment in time can you free yourself from the "pain-body" - the accumulated pain of your past - and from your fears about the future. Once you achieve this state of presence, a radical inner transformation begins that connects you with an infinite potential that defies the human mind.

Warmly shared, in the authentic voice that has brought him international acclaim, here is Eckhart Tolle's simple and profound gift to us, at a time when our world needs it most.

This book is one of two 'realtime' audiobooks that I have by Tolle. If you've listened to PON, you may be surprised by these books, not because of a difference of message, but because Tolle's speaking here is so alive and, yes, 'present'. The other interesting thing to note is his sense of humor.

Although PON is a wonderful book, these 'live' recordings capture a much more playful Tolle.

This may be the most important talk I ever listenned to. I have played it over many times. I have come to believe that dealing with our pain is the most important reason we are on this Earth. Eckert teaches us how to recognize it in ourselves and others, and how we are not our pain... It's simply trapped energy. It takes the full 21/2 hours to really understand so by practising, we will learn how to free ourselves from all suffering! It's amazing!

Eckhart has a way of dealing with words that many people do not. He teaches you how to deal with deep sorrow in your soul and how to learn to know when the pain in your mind is trying to take over. I listened to this over and over again and it gives such great insight your thinking and how your thinking influences the way that you feel. And not only that, but to teach you the way to deal with pain and make it less, until it is almost gone. I never thought I could get rid of some of the pain in my life, but Eckhart reveals in a soothing and positive way the most simpelest way of dealing with lifes problems. I never thought that I could deal with past pain, or feel past pain and deal with it, but Eckhart reveals the way to do it and it is within yourself, truly, to do away with strife. This is an EXCELLENT BOOK to listen to over again. You learn something new every time you hear the words spoken. This is a must listen to book, you will miss out on life it you don't hear it. Truly....

excellent Eckhart Tolle! he words remind me of what i am aiming for as i become aware of my pain-body moments. with each listen i get more from his descriptions and suggestions ... and with this last listen i could actually detect a difference in how my awareness is growing. he seems to say just the right thing at the right moment even though he has suggested that his words are not planned so much as delivered in the moment. a testimony to his own level of awareness i dare say.

This talk is more accelerated in how to transmute pain to peace. He touches on this subject in his books, but goes into far greater detail in this seminar. Even though I'm a man, I especially like the way he helps women deal with menustral pain as an accelerated way to enlightenment! He's truly a modern day guru.

I listen to Eckhart when I walk my dog. I pay more attention to Sylvie and enjoy her joy of sniffing, sharing her essence with other dogs, scratching, and trotting briskly along head and tail held high. I also pay more attention to my walking body and that attention has cleared out many of the pesky everyday pains. I have lost much of my desire to distract myself from reality with audiobooks and other books and notice how much of our lives we spend trying to distract ourselves and our kids. Someday, listening to Eckhart will be a distraction and I will know I have successfully washed my own brain.

Just to set the record straight, I reviewed Meditation and Psychotherapy accidently as another book I got, unfortunately it will not allow me to change anything but the stars, Audible said you cannot change it or delete. the book is AWESOME! Tara Brach is Awesome! The book I was rating I returned and was aweful. sorry

What made the experience of listening to Living the Liberated Life and Dealing with the Pain-Body the most enjoyable?

I like listening to Eckhart Tolle speak. This is a live recording before an audience and there are natural pauses and laughter, I find listening to him very soothing and interesting.

What did you like best about this story?

It is not a story. It is a live talk about spiritual matters. I like this spiritual teacher and his ideas and beliefs, and the way he delivers his message. Living in the Now, accepting and being in the moment, he is very good at expressing his ideas.

Any additional comments?

This audio programme is quite short, between 2 and 3 hours, but I listen to it regularly and still get something new from it. I use it as a calming and meditative tool.

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